Safe Standing: Rail Seating in South Stand

Prestwich_Blue said:
The government are broadly supportive of safe standing, as long as there's solid evidence that it's at least as safe as the current arrangement. The SGSA has done a preliminary study that suggests it's safer, as it mitigates against a potential crowd collapse with people falling over seats. They're continuing to study it so the more rail seating areas there are, the more evidence they can collect.
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The Government, different Ministers, the authorities, the PL, etc, have been doing studies for years. In fact, going over the same studies over and again. They and we all know safe standing is much safer than the current seat standing setup. But they don’t want safe standing brought in. They will eventually relent, but it will take further studies, more excuses, screaming and kicking, and more years, before they finally give in. W@nkers!
 
Good news. Yes it'll change little in the short term, but it shows the club is willing to support safe standing (unlike the current unsafe standing) and if they are willing to spend money it shows their commitment to it.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The government are broadly supportive of safe standing, as long as there's solid evidence that it's at least as safe as the current arrangement. The SGSA has done a preliminary study that suggests it's safer, as it mitigates against a potential crowd collapse with people falling over seats. They're continuing to study it so the more rail seating areas there are, the more evidence they can collect.
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As I said, I'm favourable too, I always have been, but I can't see it making much difference to me personally now.

At this point in time I'm more concerned about when (if) I will get to a game again, and whilst financially not bothered, I'd like to see our supporters paying less than we were (on average, as I'm happy with my seat price), as football is far too expensive for the majority (imho).
 
Will the club move fans foc to other areas if they don't want to sit on an uncomfortable rail seat?
 
blueparrot said:
Doubt it will be, but plans to extend it will probably come later, maybe with extension plans, especially as we still have no idea when the government will give permission for them to be used for standing.At least we’ll be ready to take part in any trials going forward.
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City need to decide what they're doing with the stadium for the longer term. Where the Family Stand goes, where the single, contiguous singing section should be, where the away fans go, how far round the ground they're going to install rail seating, rather than pissing about here and there, shifting odd blocks or 1,000 seats. Just do it.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The government are broadly supportive of safe standing, as long as there's solid evidence that it's at least as safe as the current arrangement. The SGSA has done a preliminary study that suggests it's safer, as it mitigates against a potential crowd collapse with people falling over seats. They're continuing to study it so the more rail seating areas there are, the more evidence they can collect.
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I believe that the biggest barrier to safe standing is the objections of the Hillsbrough survivors.
 
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